Chapter 154: Family Trivia, Silver Lightning Thunder Python Promotion
Pagoda Peak, Zhongping Hall.
"Deputy Clan Chief, the Scarlet Flame Diamond Monkey is too rare. I know that my contribution to the family is not as great as that of many clan members, so I don't dare to dream about it."
"But since the octagonal water deer can be mass-bred, then it's not too much for me to ask for one as a contracted spiritual pet for my son, right?"
"Although my son's spiritual qualifications are not as good as mine, he is also a member of the family's bloodline. He has always been loyal to the family and gets along well with the clan members. These are all obvious to the clan members. I am not bragging about myself!"
In the main hall, a monk from the Zhou family with gray hair was speaking to Zhou Chun with excitement on his face.
This Zhou family monk's cultivation level is not very high. He is only at the ninth level of Qi refining stage. His cultivation level at this age shows that his status in the Zhou family is not much higher. He has earned it entirely due to his age.
This old man's name is Zhou Jiakui, he is ranked twenty-third among his peers, and he is currently an elite member of the Zhou family.
He came to Zhou Chun today to ask for an eight-pointed water deer as a contracted spiritual pet for his son Zhou Zhenghuan.
Originally, what he said was both emotional and reasonable, so Zhou Chun should consider this elder's request.
But thinking of the information about his son Zhou Zhenghuan, Zhou Chun couldn't help but shook his head.
He could only say kindly: "Uncle Twenty-Third, I am not a nephew, but I am inhumane. In fact, the Eighteenth Brother is not suitable for raising a delicate spiritual pet like an octagonal water deer.
I’ve almost lost my pet to death, so you’d better give up your thoughts!”
The Zhou family is a beast-controlling family, but not every monk of the Zhou family is good at controlling beasts.
Just like Zhou Zhenghuan, the son of the old man Zhou Jiakui in front of Zhou Chun, he has a dissolute nature. He likes to hang around and look for people to drink and brag when he has nothing to do. He has no ambition or sense of responsibility at all.
I even once put my pet rock-armored pig into my spirit animal bag, and then I left the spirit animal bag in a corner of my residence, forgetting to open and feed it for a long time.
As a result, the rock-armored pig was suffocated in the spirit beast bag for too long, and finally it couldn't stand it anymore, so it could only ignore the owner's orders and forcefully open the spirit beast bag to find food.
How could Zhou Chun be at ease when such a person was asked to raise an octagonal water deer that needed to eat fresh grass every day?
And Zhou Chun didn't even need to think about it to know that the libertine wanted to contract an octagonal water deer, probably with the idea that when the spiritual pet came of age, he could take him out and wander around away from the family.
But as a father, Zhou Jiakui naturally has a natural filter bonus for his son.
He immediately defended his son and said: "What happened that time was just my son's carelessness. Who hasn't been careless? Deputy Chief, you can't deny my son's ability just because of this incident!"
"Uncle Twenty-Third!"
Zhou Chun suddenly raised his voice, looked at him seriously and said, "I respect you as an elder, so I don't want to say anything too harsh, but you must respect yourself!"
"If there are a lot of eight-pointed water deer, as long as you are willing to contribute to the family's good deeds, you can exchange them in any way you like. However, if the number is limited, the family must give priority to finding suitable people to contract with them!"
"Our family's rules have always been like this. Do you want the younger generation to make an exception for you?"
At the end of the sentence, Zhou Chun's tone was already very harsh.
It is true that he has always been polite and courteous to his elders, but as the deputy patriarch in charge of family affairs, he is not only polite, but also has a temper.
Generally, he would respond politely to an elder's request, whether he could agree to it or not.
But if Zhou Jiakui treats his politeness as bargaining capital like Zhou Jiakui does now, he will no longer be polite.
At this moment, seeing Zhou Chun's serious face, Zhou Jiakui also trembled and did not dare to say anything more.
He could only sigh in a low voice and said: "Yes, deputy chief, you are right. I just made a mistake and offended the deputy chief. I apologize to you!"
After saying that, he bowed his hands towards Zhou Chun and bowed.
"Uncle Twenty-Third, please go back. If you can find a way to change your Eighteenth Brother's temperament and come to me again in the future, I will definitely help you with this matter."
Zhou Chun waved his hand and sent the guests off directly.
But after hearing what he said, Zhou Jiakui's face became even darker.
At that moment, he left Zhongping Hall with a disappointed look on his face.
In this way, some people refused, and some agreed. Zhou Chun basically achieved fairness and justice, and decided on the owners of all the monster cubs that had not yet been born.
The same goes for the monkey cubs including the Red Flame Diamond Monkey.
Zhou Zhengyong's son, Zhou Xinlan, is still up to par. Now he has successfully entered Taoism and has reached the first level of Qi refining stage.
As long as you successfully enter the Tao, you will have the ability to contract with monsters.
As the most qualified monk among the direct descendants of the "Xin" family, and his father is a core member of the family who has made great contributions to the family, he takes the baby of the Red Flame Vajra Monkey as his first spiritual pet and the family's favorite.
Support and training of young people.
This was enough for Zhou Chun to reject other people's requests with confidence.
Time flies, and soon another two years have passed.
During this period, the Zhou family conducted two secret transactions with the Hualong Sect and gained many rare items.
During this period, the Zhou family's second and third Scarlet Flame Diamond Monkeys were born one after another, completely announcing the complete success of the population expansion of this hybrid monster beast.
Moreover, there are several new octagonal water deer in the deer park, and their reproduction rate is getting faster and faster.
Even the Xiangling musk deer brought back by Zhou Chun successfully impregnated two ordinary female musk deer.
The monster beast populations in other animal gardens have also shown healthy growth, and the number of newly born monster beast cubs has increased every year.
At the same time, under the protection of the Zhou family's security team, the number of casual cultivators who come to the Zhou family to practice has also increased compared to a few years ago, which has made the Zhou family's rental income much greater.
These happy events made Zhou Chun and other senior officials of the Zhou family very satisfied and happy, and they relieved a lot of worries.
For Zhou Chun personally, his own gains in the past two years are not small.
Not only have I mastered the two secret techniques that I had previously practiced, but I have also tempered them more than a dozen times to temper the meridians in my body to the point where they can withstand the invasion of a small amount of gold energy without being injured.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! This cleared a big obstacle for him to officially switch to "Jin Ding Xuan Gong" later.
At the same time, under his cultivation regardless of consumption, the Silver Lightning Thunder Python finally accumulated its cultivation to the peak of a first-order monster by slowly taking a hundred-year-old elixir and digesting it.
Having reached this stage, if it wants to make a breakthrough by slowly accumulating money, it will take at least a few years.
But the 300-year-old dragon's blood ginseng that Zhou Chun had obtained earlier was enough to save him this hard work.
On this day, Zhou Chun called the Silver Lightning Python who was practicing on the mountain to the courtyard.
"Bai Bai, you must be more ambitious this time and make a successful breakthrough."
In the yard, Zhou Chun gently stroked the silver lightning python's white forehead, and fed it the dragon's blood ginseng with its expectant eyes.
After swallowing the dragon's blood ginseng in this way, it immediately coiled itself up on the coiled dragon pile specially built for it by Zhou Chun in the yard, and slowly fell asleep to digest the powerful medicinal power contained in the dragon's blood ginseng.
When the rock turtle lying down in the yard saw this scene, he couldn't help but feel envious in his eyes.
It actually reaches the first-order limit much earlier than the Silver Lightning Python.
However, due to its bloodline, it cannot break through and advance like the Silver Lightning Python Baibai by swallowing powerful elixirs.
In other words, you need to swallow certain elixirs containing special power to achieve breakthroughs and promotions.
At present, Zhou Chun has not had time to find spiritual objects for it to achieve breakthrough promotion, so it can only follow Zhou Chun's teachings and try to develop new applications of its own innate spells and tap its potential in this area.
"You don't have to envy Shitou. After Bai Bai's breakthrough is successful, we will be stronger and can better find the spiritual objects needed for your breakthrough and advancement."
"Don't worry, no matter what, I will never give up on you."
Seemingly noticing the envy in the rock turtle's eyes, Zhou Chun turned around and comforted the spiritual pet.
He, Zhou Chun, is not a person who likes the new but hates the old. What's more, Yantugui has saved his life many times and helped him a lot since he followed him. He is a truly meritorious veteran.
Naturally, he will not treat this old man badly, and will definitely try his best to make his promotion successful.
Because it was expected that the Silver Lightning Thunder Python would take a long time to be promoted successfully, Zhou Chun told the Rock Turtle to take good care of his home before leaving his residence and heading to the Zhongping Hall for work.
After he arrived at the Zhongping Hall, the Vajra Monkey, who had already taken up his post as the spiritual beast guarding the hall, immediately saluted him with his hands raised.
This old monkey has been trained by [Aoki Spirit Monkey] for more than two years. His past monkey habits have been changed a lot. Now he is enlightened and understands the importance of pleasing humans.
When Zhou Chun has time, he will give it some guidance and help it better develop its own natural magic power.
Of course, [Aoki Spirit Monkey] has more guidance in this aspect, and he is the real master in this aspect.
At this time, Zhou Chun nodded slightly to the old monkey and began to look at the documents arranged by the transcriber on the docket.
Recently, there was a letter from the Wang family, proposing to hold a new joint martial arts competition among the five major cultivating families. Depending on the situation, they also intend to let the Zhou family take over the event.
This was originally a great thing, a recognition of the Zhou family's strength.
But the Zhou family's current situation is a little embarrassing.
In the youth group under the age of thirty, there are almost no talents available, and the person with the highest cultivation level is only at the eighth level of Qi refining stage!
However, in the elite group under sixty years old, there are many monks from the Zhou family who can compete for the top ten.
However, because the Zhou family's performance was so impressive last time, the He family, Sun family and other families all expressed that they would restrict the spiritual pets of Zhou family monks from participating, otherwise they would not participate in this martial arts competition.
However, if spiritual pets are really restricted from participating, it will be very difficult for the monks of the Zhou family to achieve any good results.
Therefore, Zhou Chun did not agree for the time being, and planned to hold a martial arts competition within the tribe first to get a feel for the background of these tribesmen.
"Well, it just so happens that the first-level magic weapons I eliminated are of no use anymore, so I'll just take out a few and use them as lottery prizes!"
Zhou Chun touched his chin and thought for a while, and soon came up with an idea for the rewards for the competition.
Now the patriarch of the clan, Zhou Daoyi, has concentrated on his cultivation and no longer cares about clan affairs. No matter what is particularly important, he cannot be disturbed.
There is no need to disturb him for things like martial arts competitions within the clan.
So after Zhou Chun figured out the prizes, he notified all the tribesmen who met the competition conditions of the news and asked them to prepare.
After a few days passed like this, on the day when the event started, Zhou Chun and several elders came to the scene.
Before the contestants officially took the stage to compete, Zhou Chun, the deputy patriarch, also gave a speech.
"Fellow tribesmen, the purpose of this martial arts competition is to test your cultivation achievements and let the family leaders see your abilities."
"So don't have any selfish intentions, and do your best."
"Anyone who performs well today will receive relevant rewards from the family."
After a brief speech, at Zhou Chun's signal, the fourth elder Zhou Jiarui, who served as the referee, came on stage and began to read out names to call people on stage.
I saw that among the people participating in the martial arts competition today, there were many acquaintances of Zhou Chun.
His contemporaries like his third sister Zhou Zhengjing, eighth brother Zhou Zhengtao, tenth brother Zhou Zhengyong and others are all contestants in this elite group.
Their cultivations are all at the tenth level of the Qi Refining Stage at their worst, and they have all cultivated first-level high-grade monster beast spiritual pets. Their strength is considered relatively strong among monks of the same realm.
There are also some monks of the "family" generation who have also cultivated to the tenth or eleventh level of the Qi Refining Stage under the age of sixty.
"Looking at this situation, if a joint martial arts competition is really held, our Zhou family can only work hard on the elite group. If one person from the youth group can enter the top ten, it will be considered as saving face!"
In the audience, Zhou Jiapeng, the newly promoted sixth elder of the Zhou family, looked at the Zhou family monks competing this time and couldn't help but shake his head in disapproval.
He also participated in the elite group's martial arts competition last time and made it into the top ten.
So he undoubtedly has a say in this matter.
"Actually, this is a normal thing. According to the past rules of several of their families, there is a martial arts competition held every ten years or so. Almost no family can perform well twice in a row."
Zhou Chun said his opinion calmly, but he had nothing to regret.
A family that cultivates immortality may be able to have Zifu monks and foundation-building monks from generation to generation.
But it is undoubtedly unrealistic to expect a group of outstanding tribesmen under the age of sixty and under thirty to emerge every ten years or so.
This is also the reason why several cultivating families jointly organize this kind of martial arts competition.
Since no family can perform well all the time, everyone has the opportunity to come forward, so that there is meaning in always participating.
But having said that, several elders still felt a little uncomfortable thinking that their family might be at the bottom.
The third elder, Zhou Daoquan, couldn't help but said: "Actually, our Zhou family just happened to run into it. If we had come to Jingguo a few decades earlier, there would have been several Qi-refining period ten-year-olds under the age of thirty appearing every ten years or so.
It is not difficult to become a monk at the top level."
"If it had been twenty years later, when the younger members of the family had grown up, they would have been able to take on responsibilities and assume important responsibilities!"
Having said this is like saying nothing.
A few decades ago, how could the Zhou family look up to the Wang family? A small family like the He family was not on the same level at all!
Therefore, several other senior officials of the Zhou family, including Zhou Chun, could only smile bitterly at this time.